Ukrainian prosecutor’s office sent charges of treason against Aksenov and Poklonskaya to court

The office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine sent an indictment to the court against high-ranking officials of Crimea, including its head Sergei Aksenov and the former prosecutor of the republic Natalia Poklonskaya, transfers TASS.

As stated in the department, they are accused “of high treason, encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, actions aimed at violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or the seizure of state power as part of a criminal organization.”

Recall that on December 17, employees of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine at the building of the Verkhovna Rada tried to hand over a summons to People’s Deputy Petro Poroshenko and summon him for interrogation in the case of the purchase and supply of coal from the territory of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, but the ex-president avoided receiving the document. Judging by published the investigative department of the video, the bureau employees only managed to run up to Poroshenko, when he, accompanied by security guards, got into a tinted car. The ex-president and his companions ignored the request to take the summons.

Poroshenko became a defendant in the case initiated under Part 3 of Art. 258-5 (financing of terrorism), part 1 of art. 111 (treason) and Part 1 of Art. 258-3 (creation of a terrorist organization) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The investigation is being conducted by the State Security Service, the SBU and the Prosecutor General’s Office. Earlier, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said that the Presidential Administration during the reign of Poroshenko “could play a key role” in organizing coal supplies from territories in Donbass controlled by militants of the terrorist groups “DPR” and “LPR”. On November 15, as part of this investigation, ex-Minister of Energy Vladimir Demchishin was summoned for interrogation.

In October, the defendant in the case became MP, leader of the Opposition Platform – For Life and Putin’s godfather Viktor Medvedchuk. And on September 24, businessman Sergei Kuzyara was arrested.

The press service of European Solidarity argues that the investigation is an attempt by the incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky to divert the attention of voters from the crises provoked by his policies.

“Under constant illegal pressure from Zelensky against Petro Poroshenko, more than a hundred different criminal cases have already been fabricated. All of them are politically motivated and sewn with white threads. The so-called coal business is also a fake and a lie that are fabricated on Bankova (in the president’s office) as a result of personal fears and complexes, “Poroshenko’s associates explained.

They recalled that the reputation of the incumbent was severely damaged due to “Wagnergate” and reports of the involvement of Zelensky and his studio Kvartal in laundering the funds of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky and stealing money from Privatbank depositors.